Yves here. While I appreciate the purity of Rob Urie’s argument, the prevalence of financiers as oligarchs depends on whether the economy is financialized. By Rob Urie, author of Zen…
By Lambert Strether. Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Guernsey–Fish Ponds and Platte River Trail, Platte, Wyoming, United States. Patient readers, there are many developments on the DOGE front,…
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The Proud Boys no longer have control over their own name. Under a ruling by a Washington judge on Monday, the infamous far-right group was stripped of control over the…
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To most, the diagnosis would sound dire. The delicate silk material of a jacket that had come into Eva Joan, a repair shop in the West Village, had “shattered.” On…
6 minutes ago Ana Faguy BBC News President Trump has introduced tariffs on goods from China, which has hit back by announcing similar charges on some US products. Trump has…
As divers and salvage crews begin pulling parts and pieces of an American Airlines regional commuter jet and an Army helicopter from the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport in…
Over the last few months, University of California officials have boasted that they have admitted the most racially diverse class ever to their sprawling system. They have managed to do…